Metro-North Crews To Make Improvements to Port Jervis Line

MTA Metro-North Railroad today announced that Metro-North crews will make infrastructure improvements to the Port Jervis Line this weekend beginning Friday, March 22. As part of the complete upgrade of the Port Jervis Line signal system, crews will continue installation work on the section of track between Campbell Hall and Hudson Junction.

This new cab signal system needs to be in place to support Positive Train Control operations on the Port Jervis Line. Positive Train Control is a technology designed to reduce the potential for human error that can lead to train-involved accidents.

To accommodate the work, buses will substitute for trains between Port Jervis and Harriman from 11:30 p.m. Friday, March 22, and continuing until 7 p.m. Sunday, March 24. Trains will operate on normal schedules between Harriman and Hoboken.

Service details are below:

Westbound to Port Jervis

Train departing Hoboken from 9:58 p.m. Friday, March 22, through 4:04 p.m. on Sunday, March 24, will terminate at Harriman. Customers seeking to travel to Salisbury Mills, Campbell Hall, Middletown, Otisville and Port Jervis be able to connect at Harriman with buses making all continuing stops.

Normally scheduled train service resumes with the 6:13 p.m. train from Hoboken, due into Port Jervis at 8:22 p.m.

Buses will follow train schedules.

Eastbound to Hoboken

On Saturday, March 23, and Sunday, March 24, buses will substitute for trains at Port Jervis, Otisville, Middletown, Campbell Hall and Salisbury Mills. Buses from Salisbury Mills will travel to Ramsey-Rt. 17, where customers can connect with regularly scheduled train service. Buses from the other stations will travel to Harriman, where customers can connect with regularly scheduled train service to Hoboken and Secaucus Junction.

Buses will follow train schedules.

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